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CIRCULAR. 

HEAD  QUARTERS,  DIST.  IND.  TER'Y,. 

Fort  Towson  C.  N.,  May  28th,  1864. 

The  following  instructions  and  regulations  are  published  for  the 
guidance  of  Agents;  designated  by  General  Orders  No.  44, from  these 
Head  Quarters,  with  the  concurrence  ot  Hon.  P.  W.  Gray,  Agent 
for  the  Confederate  States  Treasury  Department,  and  Gen'l.  E.  Kirbt 
Smith,  Commanding  Trans-Mississippi  Department,  to  facilitate  the 
funding  of  the  present  issue  of  Confederate  money  in  this  District.— 
A  strict  and  rigid  compliance  with  them  will  be  required. 

As  the  authority  to  create  Depositories  is  Tested  in  the  General 
Government  alone,  Agents  are  appointed,wbo  will  receive  money  and 
give  receipts  for  the  same  in  the  following  manner,  viz.- 

I.  The  money  of  each  individual  will  be  received,  counted  and 
placed  in  a  separate  package,  which  package  will  be  numbered  and 
the  name,  place  of  residence,  amount  contained  and  date  of  receipt 
by  the  Agent  plainly  marked  thereon. 

II.  There  will  be  kept  by  the  Agent  a  list  of  all  deposits,  duly 
numbered,  and  showing  the  facts  marked  on  the  different  packages, 
so  that  each  package  forming  a  separate  deposit  may  be  promptly  re- 
cognized and  identified.     * 

III.  Agents  will  furnish  to  depositors  a  receipt,  corresponding 
with  the  endorsements  on  the  packages,  which  will  be  retained  by  the 
latter,  until  their  motley  is  carried  by  the  Agent  to  the  Confederate 
States  Depository  at  Jefferson,  Texas,  when  certificates  of  J3onds, 
bearing  date  and  interest  from 'the  date'of  deposite  with  the  Agent 
will  be  issued,  and  the  Agents  receipts  will  be  withdrawn  by  the  issu- 
ance of  said  certificates.  •  .  * 

IV.  Should  counterfeit  money  be  found  in  any  of  the  packages, 
when  they  are  examined  at  the  Depository,  (where  the  detection  of 
spurious  bills  can  only  be  made,)  the  amount  of  such  spurious  money 
will  be  deducted  from  the  amount  originally  in  the  package  from 
which  it  was  taken,  and  the  certificate  ot  Bond  will  issue  for  the  re- 
mainder  of  geduine  money.  It  is  for  this  purpose  that  the  money  of 
each  individual  is  required  to  be  placed  in  a  seperate  package;  it 
would  be  obviously  unjust  to  place  the  burthen  of  the  loss  upon  the 
shoulders  of  the  Agent  who  is  working  for  and  identified  with  the  in- 
terests of  the  people;  or  cause  its  loss  to  fall  on  any  other  than  the 
party  who  deposits  it. 

Y.  The  Agent  will  retain  the  Counterfeit  money,  detected  at  the 
Depository,  as  evidence,  to  be  exhibited  to  the  party  from  whom  he 
received  it,  for  the  failure  of  the  Certificate  to  correspond  in  the 
amount  deposited  and  receipted  for  by  him. 

VI.  The  following  synopsis  of  the  funding  law  is  published  for 
general  information,  viz; 

$100  Notes,  which  do  not  bear  interest,  must  be  funded  by  or  be- 
fore Jose  dOtb,  '6i.    At  that  time  they  ve  taxed  33$  per  coat.,  sec! 


2. 

are  not  exchangeable  at  the  Treasury  for  tie  new  issue.  For  every 
additional  month  a  tax  of  10  per  cent,  is  added  until  January  1st  '05, 
when  a  tax  of  100  per  cent,  makes  them  valueless. 

$50,  $20,  and  $'0  notes  must  be  lunded  by  or  before  JuneSO'h  '64, 
or  they  will  be  taxed  33 jj  per  cent.  These  denominntions  ai  e  not  sub- 
ject, (as  the  non-interest  bearing  $100  notes,)  to  the  monthly  tax  of 
10  per  cent,  and  are  exchangeable  at  the  Treasury  at  the  rate  of  *'-' 
in  new  for  $3  of  old  bills,  and  can  be  used  at  that  valuation  In  the 
payment  of  taxes,  postage  &c,  until  January  1st,  '05,  when  a  tax  of 
100  per  cent  will  be  imposed,  making  them  valueless. 

$6  notes  do  not  have  to  be  lunded  at  this  time,  and  are  good  for 
the  expressed  value  on  their  face  till  Oct.  1st,  '04,  when  a  tax  of  88 J 
per  cent  will  be  imposed  on  them.  They  do  not  become  liable  to  tho 
tax  of  100  per  cent,  and  are  exchangeable  at  the  Treasury  or  can  bo 
used  to  pay  taxes,  postage  &c,  at  any  time  at  their  teduced  value  of 
33 j  per  cent. 

Bills  of  less  denomination  than  $5  do  not  have  to  be  funded  at  all, 
and  are  as  good  as  the  new  issue.  $100  notes,  bearing  interest  at 
7-30  per  cent  cannot  be  used  any  longer  for  the  payment  of  public 
dues,  and  do  not  require  to  be  funded.  The  operations  of  this  act  of 
Congress  converts  them  into  Bonds,  payable  two  years  after  the  rati- 
fication of  a  treaty  of  peace  with  the  United  States,  bearing  interest 
at  7-30  per  cent,  payable  on  the  1st  of  January,  of  each  year. 

VII.  As  soon  after  the  30th  of  June  ©4  as  possible  each  agent 
will  make  arrangements  to  proceed  to  the  Depository  at  Jefferson 
Texas,  to  deposite  his  money  and  receive  the  certificate  of  Bond". 
He  will  notifiy  these  Head  Quarters  that  an  escort  may  be  provided 
for  him*. 

VIII.  Each  Agent  will  designate  some  time,  (of  which  due  notico 
must  be  given  on  his  return  from  the  Depository)  when  he  will  take 
in  his  receipts,  replacing  them  bythe  Treasurer's  certificates. 

IX.  To  ensure  unanimity  in  tho  receipts  given  by  agents  the  fol- 
lowing form  is  adopted  viz. 

Office  Agent  for  funding  C.  S.  Money 

1861 

Receipt  for  package  No. 

Received  of residing  in 

the  sum  of dollars  in  Confederate  State  notes 

of  the  d  cmom  i  nation  of to  be  by  me  carried 

to  the  Depository  at  Jefferson  Texas  to  be  funded  in  accordance  with 
an  act  of  Congress. 

Agent 

X.  The  peoplo  of  the  District  are  invited  and  urged  to  afford  to 
Agents  every  facility,  in  the  prosecution  a  work  undertaken  solely 
for  their  benefit,  by  coming  forward  promptly  and  depositing  their 
money ,thereby  securing  all  the  benefits  which  an  early  deposite  guar- 
antees. Interest  on  tho  Bonds  commences  from  the  data  of  the 
Agents  receipt. 

ByOrderof  MAJOR  GEN.  MAXET. 

T.  M.  Scoit,  A.  A.  Gen'l. 


H'D.  QUARTERS.  DIST.  INDIAN  TERRITORY,  ( 
Fort  Towboh,  JEja-  28th,  1864.      \ 
GENERAL  ORDERS,  »  K 

No.  44.  i"  w 

I.  The  following  named  persons  are  hereby  appointed  Agents  on 
behalf  of  tlie  people  of  the  Indian  Territory,  and  Troops  therein  to 
receive  and  iund  the  present  issue  of  Confederate  Money  in  accord- 
ance with  the  act  of  Congress.  Instructions  necessary  lor  guidance 
issued  from  these  Head  Quarters. 


Maj.  F.  A.  Rkctor, 
Israel  Folsom, 
Rev.  Allen  Weight, 
Capt.  S.  Hare, 
Henderson  Walker, 
Capt.  Isaac  Clark, 
Major  I.  G.  Yore, 
Capt.  W.  A.  Welch, 
Rev.  J.  M.  Robinson, 
By  Order 
C.  G.  Schtltz,  A.  A.  A. 


Doaksville,  C.  N., 
Armstrong  Academy, 
Boggy  Depot,  C.  N., 
Gano's  Brigade, 
Walker's  Brigade, 
Watie's        " 

H'd.  Qu'trs.  Cooper's  Div. 

Fort  Washita, 

Tishomingo, 
MAJOR  GEN'L.  MAXEY. 


G. 


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Regulations  in  regard  to  Tithes  in  Kind,  which 
have  been  received  by  Quarter-Masters,  Com- 
missaries, or  other  persons   for  the  use  of  the 

Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

Office  ok  Commissionkr  ok  Taj       | 
Richmond,  April  16tb,  18G4.      <• 

I.  In   cases   where  the  produce  subject  to   tax  in  kind  has  bee  i 
taken  and  receipted   for    by   any  Quarter-Master   or    Cotnra 
serving  with  troops  in  the  field,  the  receipt  may  be  allowed  i 
Collector  in  settlement  of  the  money  value  of  the  tax  in  kind. 

II.  In  cases  where  such  produce  of  the  farmer  has  lieen  I 
and  receipted  for  by  any  person  belonging  to  the  arm}-,  not  a 
Quarter-Master  or  Commissary,  and  proof  is  made  of  the  fact  by 
the  tax  payer,  and  such  other  person,  or  persons,  as  may  haw 
knowledge  of  the  fact,  and  the  character  of  the  tax  payer,  and  wit- 
nesses for  truth  and  integrity  established  by  evidence,  if  the  Collec- 

-  satisfied  that  the  produce  has  been  received  and  used  by  tin- 
Confederate  States  Army,  the  receipt  may  be  in  like  manner  allowed. 
HI.  Tn  cases  where  such  produce  has  been  taken  by  the  Confed- 
erate States  Army,  and  no  receipt  given,  upon  proof  or  affidavit  ol 
the  producer  and  such  other  person,  or  persons,  as  may  know  the 
with  proof  establishing  the  character  of  the  producer  and 
witnesses  for  the  truth  and  integrity  of  the  amount  so  taken,  may 
':i  like  maimer  be  allowed. 

ISigned.]  THOMPSON  ALLEN, 

Approved,  Commissioner. 

[Signed.]  C.  C.  MEMMINUER, 

Secretary  of  the  Treasury. 
j&^gir  The  foregoing  is   published    for   the  information   of  Tax 
Collectors  and  other*  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department. 

P.  W.  GRAY, 
Agent  Treasurv.  T.  M.  1> 


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